CHATHAM — A lawsuit the Ball-Chatham School District’s attorneys drafted but never filed alleges the district’s former superintendent received an $11,000 moving reimbursement for items that were never moved and had undisclosed relationships with district contractors, among other misdeeds.

Bob Gillum retired from the district at the end of the 2011-12 school year. The district last year announced that it was investigating him for “insufficient documentation” related to travel and reimbursement expenditures during his five-year tenure.

An audit report released in November said Gillum misspent or failed to provide proper documentation for nearly $30,000 in expenses he charged to district credit cards or for which the district reimbursed him.

The district agreed to release that report following a lawsuit from the group Better Chatham Schools. The group more recently received the draft lawsuit as part of its ongoing litigation with the district.

Following the audit, the school board voted 5-2 in June to approve a settlement with Gillum, who was named the 2011 Illinois Superintendent of the Year and whose salary grew from $188,741.76 his first year to $269,388.63 his final year.

Gillum agreed to pay the district $16,100 and gave up district-paid health insurance he and his wife would have received until he turned 65 in 2022. The insurance was estimated to cost the district $1,000 a month.

Reached by phone Thursday night, Gillum declined to comment.

Former School Board President Jim Neuses could not be reached for comment.

District officials said at the time the audit was released that there are now more safeguards in place to ensure that district money isn’t misspent.

School Superintendent Carrie Hruby said in November that she couldn’t comment directly on the allegations in the audit because of a nondisparagement clause in the settlement agreement.

“Anytime there’s an issue in the district, we always go back and revisit our policy and procedures,” said Hruby, who was assistant superintendent under Gillum. “It’s really about putting in multiple layers of oversight in any situation.”

The draft lawsuit alleges Gillum served in advisory roles for St. Louis-based Ittner Architects, which the district hired to design Glenwood Elementary School, and Framingham, Mass.-based Ameresco, which was hired in 2010 to perform lighting and electrical upgrades.

Unbeknownst to the school board, Ittner paid Gillum for his services while it was serving as the “architect of record” for the district, according to the draft lawsuit. He used district phones and computers to do work on behalf of the companies on district time, the lawsuit alleges.

The draft lawsuit also contends Gillum received reimbursement from the district for airfare to a Florida golf trip with Gilbane Inc., which was district’s construction manager on the Glenwood Elementary project, even though it wasn’t related to district business.

Gillum also charged $998 to his district credit card for “one or more celebratory dinners” after he was named superintendent of the year, one of several instances of misusing the credit card, according to the draft lawsuit.

Correction: A previous version of this story misidentified Jim Neuses as the Ball-Chatham School Board president. Rick Petermeyer was elected to succeed Neuses as president at the board’s April 28 meeting.